Before the short item for today, I am happy to pass along an announcement
about an on-line exhibition of daguerreotypes. "Daguerreotypes at Harvard"
features a group of twelve images from their collections. The URL is:
http://preserve.harvard.edu/new/exhibit/intro1.html
The image of John Fitzgibbon as well as that of Edwin Forrest are quite
exceptional.
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On this day (February 7) in the year 1848, the following news item
appeared in the "Boston Daily Evening Transcript":
SOMETHING NEW IN THE ART. Mr. J. A. Whipple 96 Washington street has
succeeded in obtaining recently perfect and vivid impressions in
Daguerreotype of some peculiar lesions connected with Ship Typhus. We
learn that these impressions were taken from the morbid specimens
themselves furnished by a physician in this city who is engaged in
original investigations of the above disease.
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I should also mention that my post of 02-05-97 had more than "original
errors of spelling." Some typos of my own making were unfortunately
included. I have corrected the text, however, in the DagNews archive at:
http://www.daguerre.org/resource/dagnews/dagnews.html
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Posted for your enjoyment. Gary W. Ewer
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02-07-97